LMProd,

When I was being instructed full-scale, I was told that what you describe as being "reverse order". When we hit the base leg, my instructor would be saying..."REVERSE ORDER ! Remember ! Power for altitude now, elevator for airspeed !". We were lucky and had VASI's so I could practice this and "know" when I had it on glide-slope. When I later got my pilots eyes, as they say, I could tell if I was on glide-slope by the orientation of the aircraft to the runway.

When it really came in handy was during practice ILS approaches. I forget to always use it in R/C, but when I do, it rewards me with a good landing. I was also taught in full-scale that "a bad approach always makes a bad landing".

Great advise and GREAT memories !

CJ